Dianne Wiest Does Beckett in Happy Days

Peggy Ashcroft said that the role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days was a “summit part” for women like Hamlet was for men, and that many actresses would want to test themselves against it. Dianne Wiest played Winnie in an acclaimed production at Yale Rep in 2016, and now she is playing this summit part at Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Her Winnie is buried up to the waist in a veritable mountain of sand set against a very bright blue sky. There is a fancy red cu